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I'm a long way from 12TB, but I was relieved to see the new plans since I know I will eventually pass 2TB. As you mentioned, I consider iCloud basically for syn
by aikinai 3y ago
I'm a long way from 12TB, but I was relieved to see the new plans since I know I will eventually pass 2TB. As you mentioned, I consider iCloud basically for syncing and short-term backup of convenience, but I wouldn't trust it as a single point of failure for anything.
Photos I take with my real camera are backed up separately on a computer, separate drive, and off-site (Arq Backup to Wasabi). Photos I take with my phone are synced through iCloud to a computer with "Download entire library" enabled, which then has the same local and offsite backup.
The iCloud syncing has gotten more reliable over the years though in my experience. So I'm increasingly comfortable with it, but I'd still never fully trust my priceless data with any of the easy-but-no-control mainstream services like Apple or Google Photos.
- ph4te 3y agoThis is the way, Arq is dead simple, cheap, and so is Wasabi.
- voisin 3y agoWhy Wasabi and not Backblaze?
- ph4te 3y agoWasabi has a pretty much static price, whereas B2 has you pay for storage and misc fees depending on how much api calls and bandwidth you use.
- aikinai 3y agoI used to love Backblaze until I dug in a bit more and realized the product is unreliable. Quoted from my own past comment[0]: 1. The client will lie to you and you never know what’s really backed up. Even if you use the secret alt-click to force a full drive scan, it can still miss files and tell you fully backed up when files from days ago are still nowhere to be found. Luckily I’ve never actually needed to do a restore, but I almost thought I did one time and would have been furious at all the missing files I noticed. 2. This might not matter to some people but absolutely no meta data is backed up. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301626